This has been something I've been juggling in my head for months if I am to be brutally honest. It's been 20 years since I have set foot here. Despite the created date Archaon holds, he was actually first created on Christmas Day 2002. It was pretty fun when his journey started.. from little drak mage, growing into the necromancer everyone knows to this day. Things were great, and I was also brought into the Oply fold before Arch even hit 15. 2008, however, that's when everything changed.
October 15th, 2008 I was let out early from my college class that day, and had made plans with my brother for a party that weekend, but that never happened. A semi forced me off of the road, and the last thing I saw was a big ass tree. I woke up, probably a few hours later, in the hospital with a makeshift cast on my right leg and one on my left arm. I didn't know what was going on, what happened, or why I was there. All I could feel was being pissed that my clothes were chopped up. Turns out my arm and leg were broken. 3 bones.
Fast forward through all the therapy and rehab and all that other garbage, I endured more than just my own personal pain. My mother was going through chemo for breast cancer, and my last two grandparents had passed away. I tried to come back to being here and thinking things would be the same, but they weren't. I felt like I lost my old self that day. I didn't want to RP, or do a whole lot of things, and much as I've tried, I really couldn't feel it anymore.
Not much has changed with me in this regard. I still haven't really done a lot of rping. Dethsiris felt like that was a change in a good direction, but now I find myself back to where I was, and perhaps much further down. I don't find any joy in any of it any longer, and it's with a heavy heart that perhaps it is time that I let go. Perhaps time for me to ride off into the sunset, and perhaps time for Arch to finally find favorable judgment with the Elder Dragons.
To everybody, it has been nothing short of irreplacable. Far too many memories, friends, birthdays, and good times to let go of. I honestly don't know where I'd have been if not for this place. I just hope that all the good will forever remain.